cannot insert a movie clip on PowerPoint

[Gaufres]

Hi All

I have a trouble inserting a movie clip (.avi) into Microsoft PowerPoint (Office 2002 on XP).

Method 1:
When I go "Insert" > "Movies and Sounds" > "Movie from File" > then try to pick an .AVI file up from the desktop > I get an error message.
"Cannot display this type of sound or movie. "

Method 2:
When I go "Insert" > "Object" > tick on "Create from file" > browse and pick the AVI file from the same location, desktop > I get an error message.
"There is no driver installed on your system."
After I close this error, then it says "The server application, source file, or item can't be found, or returned an unknown error. You may need to reinstall the server application."

Action Taken:
- tried to play on "mplay32.exe" but I get "There is no driver installed on your system."
- tried a different AVI file > doesn't play on mplay32.exe > cannot be inserted on PowerPoint
- windows/office update > all done
- office repair
- tested the movie outside of PPT by opening Windows Media Player > work
- upgraded Win Media Player from ver 8.0 to ver 10.0
- installed Codec Installation Packages http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/format/codecdownload.aspx
- "start" > "run" > "regsvr32 /u "\officeav.dll"" to disable NAV Office Plug-in > Error: "LoadLibrary ("officeav.dll") failed - the specified module couldn't be found."
- checked the MCI registry > add "(name) ivf, (type)REG_SZ, (data)MPEGVideo2" to "MCI32"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\MCI Extensions
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\MCI32
- reinstalled Office 2002 and its Service Packs

any suggestions??
Gaufres

 

[Gaufres]

after i changed the file extension from .avi to .mpg, it worked. i got a reply from a different forum. it is not recommend renaming file extensions but this particular trick does seem to work for many movies from digital cameras as they said.